Good Tuesday morning and welcome to the last day of November and the first day of Julian Fantino’s new life as a Member of Parliament. Fantino, the former Police Chief in Toronto and Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police won a squeaker last night in the federal byelection in the Toronto suburb of Vaughan.

While the Liberals lost in Vaughan, they picked up a replacement seat in Manitoba, taking the riding of Winnipeg North, formerly held by the NDP and Judy Wasylycia-Leis.. In the third race, the Conservatives held onto the riding of Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette.

For a third day in a row, Canadian bureaucrats, politicians and former politicians will be on tenterhooks awaiting the next flurry of diplomatic dispatches to be released by Wikileaks.

The committee schedule in Ottawa is reasonably busy but lacking in high drama today, with a couple of possible exceptions. Natural Resources Minister Christian Paradis is up before the House Government Operations and Estimates committee, looking into questionable contracts for renovating the West Block. It’s a fair guess that questions about Paradis’s lost overcoat will be plentiful.

Marcel Coutu of Syncrude, Gil McGowan of the Alberta Federation of Labour, and Gillian McEachern of the Environmental Defence Fund are appearing before the Natural Resources committee to discuss energy security in Canada.

MPs on the Health committee will hear from department officials on a national strategy for injury prevention. Meanwhile, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq will hold a news conference reminding Canadians to test their homes for radon.

Have a great day. Here is a look at the political news from across our country.